And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
John
GospelsAlso the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsArise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Judges
HistoryThe LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Amos
Minor ProphetsNow it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
Esther
HistoryThe shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsOut of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
Joshua
HistoryWhat thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahRemember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
Psalms
PoetryFor if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGreat men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job
WisdomBut Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles
HistoryGo therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
Ruth
History / SamuelSo Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
Esther
History / MordecaiHolding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.